preamble: So, Jason drafted AMF-based remoting and I'm helping cleaning it up. NetConnection.call() is currently the only user for the new non-blocking read interface of IOChannel. This was done to avoid threading there.
issues: - Jason used an interval of 500ms (1/2 second) between non-blocking reads. No wonder it takes almost an hour to fetch streets from openstreetmap (potlatch). Making quicker ticks should improve things a lot. Ideally, the 'ticker' should be waken up from an FD checker which would select with a timeout. - We need to distinguish between 404 (not found) and empty responses from HTTP. IOChannel still has a get_error() method which may be used, or we may use the exception interface. If we opt for the latter we should catch on every read. What do other devels think about it ? - A different approach might be using a thread (a single thread for each NetConnection used for remoting). In this case we'd have the thread using blocking reads (which would select() internally). --strk; _______________________________________________ Gnash-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnash-dev
